1 map: col., 69 x 36 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Colfax. Scale: 400'=1". The farming town of Colfax (located thirteen miles northwest of Pullman) was named in 1872 in honor of President Grant's Vice President, Mr. Schuyler Colfax,...

1 map : 6 x 19 cm.
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Colfax was originally settled in the 1860s, due to its location at the confluence of two rivers. It was originally named Belleville, but the name...

1 map; col., 27 x 13 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County Atlas range 42 that includes a Plat map of Penawawa, WA and land east of Almota, WA north of the Snake River. Range 42 is scaled at 1 mile=2"". The Penawawa portion of the map is scaled at...

1 map: col., 39 x 27 cm. Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Colton, Staley and Diamond. Colton scale 400'=1". Staley scale 400'=1". Diamond scale 400'=1". The town of Colton, eleven miles south of Pullman, began as a settlement in 1879. ...

1 map: col., 42 x 34 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Steptoe. Scale 400'=1". The area now known as the town of Steptoe was called Steptoe Station at first. This is because the town began as a siding, or flag stop, for the railroad....

1 map: col., 27 x 36 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Penawawa. Scale: 600'=1". Named after a nearby creek at Union Flat, the town of Penawawa lay twelve miles west of Almota. Its first permanent settler, Mr. Ed Johnson, arrived in 1871...

1 view ; 11 x 16 cm. Almota, on the north side of the Snake River almost 40 miles above Clarkston, was early on used by Nez Perce Indians as a fishing site. "Allamotin", "Almotine", and even "Alto Motin" have been given as Nez Perce names for the...

1 map: col., 40 x 36 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Garfield Washington. Scale 400'=1". Located eighteen miles northeast of Colfax, the town of Garfield was platted by landowner Samuel J. Tant in 1881. The plat was filed and the town...

1 map: col., 44 x 30 cm. Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of St. John, and Winona scale 400'=1". At Pleasant Valley Creek, eighteen miles northwest of Colfax, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. platted and filed the town in 1888. The...

1 map: col., 44 x 35 cm. Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Thornton and Elberton. Scale 400'=1". Elberton, named after Elbert, the deceased son of plat filer Sylvester M. Wait in 1886, began as the site of a mill. Located 12 miles...

1 map: col., 46 x 40 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Malden. Scale 400'=1". Located twenty miles north of Colfax, the town of Malden, Washington was named by the then Vice President of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway--Mr....